{"id":1770665,"date":"2022-12-09T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770665"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:33:16","slug":"all-the-times-twitter-execs-lied-to-our-faces-about-their-insidious-shadowbanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-the-times-twitter-execs-lied-to-our-faces-about-their-insidious-shadowbanning\/","title":{"rendered":"All The Times Twitter Execs Lied To Our Faces About Their Insidious Shadowbanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fall-the-times-twitter-execs-lied-to-our-faces-about-their-insidious-shadowbanning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770665&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Remember all the times Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde assured us that Twitter neither shadowbans nor targets conservatives? Well, they lied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second installment of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d independent journalist Bari Weiss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1601008766861815808?s=20&#038;t=b0Xoi7w7PW6hKysGnAoFvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exposed<\/a>\u00a0how the Big Tech company was secretly \u201cblacklisting\u201d conservative tweets and users by keeping \u201cdisfavored\u201d tweets from trending and secretly hiding whole accounts or topics without users\u2019 knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter team, the \u201cStrategic Response Team \u2013 Global Escalation Team\u201d (SRT-GET), was reportedly committed to censoring \u201cup to 200 \u2018cases\u2019\u201d per day. Victims included prominent conservatives Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk, as well as Stanford University professor and co-author of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/v2-9mdnszte.thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/13\/the-great-barrington-declaration-is-a-spark-of-sanity-in-a-mad-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Barrington Declaration<\/a>\u00a0Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.<\/p>\n<p>Another secret censorship group, the \u201cSite Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support team\u201d (SIP-PES), was responsible for the most \u201cpolitically sensitive decisions.\u201d The group included Gadde, Dorsey, trust and safety head Yoel Roth, former CEO Parag Agrawal, and others, and it was personally responsible for suppressing the viral Libs of TikTok Twitter account, among other high-profile censorship calls.<\/p>\n<p>But remember when Twitter execs repeatedly insisted they didn\u2019t engage in shadowbanning?<\/p>\n<p> \u2018We Do Not Shadow Ban\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>On July 25, 2018, Vice News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/43paqq\/twitter-is-shadow-banning-prominent-republicans-like-the-rnc-chair-and-trump-jrs-spokesman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that several prominent Republican politicians, such as Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, and Matt Gaetz, did not show up in a drop-down menu of automatically suggested searches, even when typing in the politicians\u2019 names.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the outcry over the apparent shadowbanning, Gadde and Twitter\u2019s product head Kayvon Beykpour attempted to couch concerns by co-authoring a blog post titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/official\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2018\/Setting-the-record-straight-on-shadow-banning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Setting the record straight on shadow banning<\/a>.\u201d \u201cWe do not shadow ban,\u201d Gadde and Beykpour insisted. \u201cYou are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly don\u2019t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The Algorithm \u2018Doesn\u2019t Make Judgements Based on Political Views\u2019\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The day before publishing that blog post, Beykpour posted a Twitter thread blaming the discrimination against Republican members of Congress on the company\u2019s use of \u201cbehavioral signals and machine learning,\u201d which they were working to \u201cimprove.\u201d However, Beykpour <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kayvz\/status\/1022149074051452931?s=20&#038;t=b0Xoi7w7PW6hKysGnAoFvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assured<\/a> users that \u201cour behavioral ranking doesn\u2019t make judgments based on political views or the substance of tweets.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u2018We Certainly Don\u2019t Shadow Ban Based on Political Viewpoints\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Dorsey then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1022662121379647488?s=20&#038;t=sCHhdXMYKS4-JqsD7MJ7yQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared<\/a>\u00a0Gadde and Beykpour\u2019s blog post, writing, \u201cWe don\u2019t shadow ban, and we certainly don\u2019t shadow ban based on political viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a vibrant and healthy public conversation inclusive of all perspectives, and one that\u2019s immediately relevant and valuable,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1022662126597419008?s=20&#038;t=b0Xoi7w7PW6hKysGnAoFvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a>\u00a0Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018We Do Not Shadow Ban. Period\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>In August 2018, Dorsey phoned into Sean Hannity\u2019s radio show,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/sen-hawley-formally-invites-facebook-and-twitter-testify-regarding-censorship-new-york-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">telling<\/a>\u00a0listeners, \u201cWe do not shadow ban according to political ideology or viewpoint or content. Period.\u201d Dorsey added that there is \u201ca lot of nuance to this\u201d and it \u201cis definitely not easy but we\u2019re trying to approach this with a very simple goal which is how do we earn more trust.\u201d He also said the company is \u201cgetting better and better, step by step.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that Twitter granted\u00a0users the ability to &#8216;share ideas&#8217; &#8216;without barriers&#8217; was a bald-faced lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1897986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7310,6919,7309,5450,7040,4126,4253],"class_list":["post-1770665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-execs","tag-federalist","tag-insidious","tag-lied","tag-shadowbanning","tag-times","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}